Publisher's Synopsis
The principles of quantum mechanics are developed within this book, emphasizing its structure and employing ideas and methods which are of wide applicability without taking them to their full generality. Applications are chosen from the field of atomic physics. No knowledge of quantum mechanics is assumed but the depth of treatment presupposes a certain maturity. It would help readers to have met some elementary wave mechanics before, making it suitable for 2nd and 3rd year UK undergraduate physics courses and in the USA at senior undergraduate or first-year graduate level. It should also be useful to experimental research workers requiring a good grasp of quantum mechanics.
